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Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ…
Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...
London: printed for Simon Miller, 1657
EVIDENCE FOR HEAVEN. › Death to Sin.EVIDENCE FOR HEAVEN. › Death to Sinne.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. Strong apprehensions of corruption, are no argument of the strength of corruption, at least, if they be accompanied with loathing of them, and warring against them, in the strength of Christ; but rather symptoms of a new Life; This therefore should not cause any to conclude, That there is no death to sin in him, but rather excite him to cleave closer to Christ, who hath begun this death in him, and will at the length perfect it.
Answ. Strong apprehensions of corruption, are no argument of the strength of corruption, at least, if they be accompanied with loathing of them, and warring against them, in the strength of Christ; but rather symptomes of a new Life; This therefore should not cause any to conclude, That there is no death to sinne in him, but rather excite him to cleave closer to Christ, who hath begun this death in him, and will at the length perfect it.
5. In the fifth place, The soul that is truly dead to sin, is universally dead to sin; he is dead to every sin, and he is dead to sin in every faculty of his soul, though but in part, yet in every part of soul and body; This, and no less then this, will serve to demonstrate a man truly dead to sin, in a Gospel-sense.
5. In the fifth place, The soul that is truly dead to sinne, is universally dead to sinne; he is dead to every sinne, and he is dead to sin in every faculty of his soul, though but in part, yet in every part of soul and body; This, and no less then this, will serve to demonstrate a man truly dead to sinne, in a Gospel-sence.
6. Finally, The soul that is truly dead to sin, is alive to righteousness; the soul that is dead in sin▪ is alive to sin, and the soul that is dead to sin, is alive to righteousness; If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin, But the Spirit is Life, because of righteousness.